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Richard Curtis

January 21, 2014 Leave a Comment

This may be a painful pill for would-be Faulkners and Austens to swallow, and my last desire is to denigrate the miraculous processes by which raw inspiration is transmuted into literature. But I do have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe a book will make it merely because it’s good.

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